900 
July 9, 1921 
The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
you have considerable corn and likewise 
some palatable Alfalfa hay, I should feed 
both of these products liberally during the 
Summer season, and you will find that 
you will be well repaid for maintaining 
your cows in good condition during the 
Summer months. F. c. M. 
Cutting Tassels from Corn 
I have read repeatedly that if the corn¬ 
stalk is cut where it grows beyond the 
upper leaf before the tassel appears or 
blossoms there will be no chance for the 
corn worm. The writers of these articles 
claim the corn product is produced by the 
roots and leaves, and all that is grown 
about the uppper leaf is a dead loss. The 
claim is also made that 20 per cent more 
corn can be produced by topping the corn 
above the last leaf. J. M. 
Atlantic City, N. J. 
The corn worm sometimes works in the 
immature tassels before they appear 
above the leaves. Taking out the tassels 
at this stage would be very difficult, and 
probably of no advantage, as far as the 
insects are concerned. The tassels of the 
corn are very essential to produce pollen 
which fertilizes the silks, and therefore 
produce the seeds. If the tassels in a 
field were removed before the pollen was 
shed and no pollen came in from outside 
fields, not a single seed would be produced 
in that field. After the pollen is shed the 
tassels dry up and take no more nutri¬ 
ment from the plant. There is, therefore, 
nothing to be gained by removing the tas¬ 
sels, and* it may be very injurious. 
Removing the tassels should not be 
confused with topping the plants whereby 
the upper part of the stalk above the ears 
with the leaves are removed in order to 
hasten ripening. It is also advocated in 
special instances to detassel part of the 
plants in the field in order to secure hy¬ 
brid seed. But this is an entirely differ¬ 
ent matter. d. f. jones. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, JULY 9, 1921 
FARM TOPICS 
Commencement and Semi-Centennial of Mas¬ 
sachusetts Agricultural College—Part I. 
897, 898 
Poison for Grasshoppers. 898 
Preparing Land for Lima Beans. 899 
Separator for Picking Over Peas and Beans. 901 
Treatment of Asparagus. 901 
Hope Farm Notes. 906 
Conditions in Orange County. 909 1 
The Slump in Western Corn. 909 
Western Men on Eastern Farm Land. 909 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 913 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Grain for Dairy Cows at Pasture. 899 
First Milk Payment Under Pooling Plan.... 909 
Milk in the Public Schools. 909 
Manufacturing New York Wool. 909 
Vermont Belgian Mares. 912 
Danger from Vaccination of Swine. 912 
Coming Live Stock Sales. 913 
Morgan Horse for Farm Work. 914 
Percheron and Arabian Horses. 914 
Inbreeding Swine . 914 
Feeding Brood Sows. 914 
Dairy Ration . 914 
THE HENYARD 
A Remedy for Blackkhead in Turkeys. 898 
Wheat as Poultry Feed. 909 
Fee’ing Nux Vomica to Chickens. 916 
Feeding Raw Potatoes to Chicks. 916 
Poor Hatches . 916 
Hatching Ducks ._. 916 
Gapes; Care of Ducklings and Goslings. 916 
Diarrhoea in Baby Chicks. 916 
Egg-laying Contest . 917 
Weak Chicks . 917 
Leg Weakness in Chicks. 917 
Treatment for Depluming Mite. 917 
Yarded Ducklings . 917 
HORTICULTURE 
Mammoth Apple Tree in North Carolina.... 899 
Fruiting Strawberries the Second Season... 899 
Notes from a Maryland Garden. 901 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 910 
A Homemade Dish Mop. 910 
Crocheted Rugs and Handmade Handker¬ 
chiefs . 910 
The Rural Patterns. 910 
The Game "Adverbs”. 910 
Amusing the Little Folks. 910 
Cooking with Sour Milk. 910 
Keeping Sliced Bacon. .. 910 
Tennessee Notes . 911 
How I Reseated Chairs. 911 
Overcoming Shiftlessness . 911 
Teach Reverence . 911 
Oatmeal Bread . 911 
May’s Mincemeat . 911 
Savannah Cake . 911 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Getting Bees Out of a Hole. 899 
The Oow as a Pet. 903 
The Fur Farming Business. 903 
Some Observations on Bir's. 903 
Prenaring a Moth for Exhibition. 903 
Notice to Auto Thieves. 905 
The Auto Hogs Have Started. 905 
Combine Against the Auto Hogs. 905 
Right After the Auto Hogs. 905 
Loyalty to the Minister. 905 
Cats and Bakeries. 905 
Trouble with a Tenant. 906 
Unrecorded Deed . 906 
Disputed Right of Way. 906 
Notes from the Mail. 907 
Treatment for Poison Ivy. 907 
Cleansing Spray for Cellar. 907 
Editorials . 908 
A Primer of Economics—Part XXXII. 915 
Tanning Rawhide . 915 
Publisher’s Desk . 918 
Destroying Moles 
My place is simply overrun with moles. 
I have used traps and to date about three 
quarts of carbon disulphide. The gas ap¬ 
pears to scatter them: Is there some 
way to poison them? They must feed on 
something. If I knew what they liked 
best, I surely would give it to them well 
soaked in poison. s. v. w. 
Suffern, N. Y. 
We have never found anything more 
satisfactory than the long-continued and 
patient use of mole traps. The use of 
disulphide of carbon has not given great 
results, since it is hard to get the fumes 
where they will reach the moles. These 
little animals live almost entirely upon 
insect foods, such as white grubs, angles 
worms, etc. It does little good to try to 
poison them with vegetable food, like po¬ 
tatoes, fruit or corn. Small pieces of 
liver well poisoned might kill some of 
them, but trapping is the most satisfac¬ 
tory plan. 
Notes on Hubam Clover 
Here is my report on annual Sweet 
clover from the Iowa College of Agricul¬ 
ture last year: Planted last year, grew 
about 4 ft. to 5 ft. high. Volunteer 
clover came up in February from shat¬ 
tered seed along the row. After trans¬ 
planting this in April, it is now (May 
28) 3 ft. to 4 ft. high and blooming. 
Clover from seed planted in April is only 
a few inches high. The largest and lat¬ 
est stalk last year has put up sprouts 
that are now 5 ft. high. This stalk did 
not bloom till very late last year, and 
was in bloom in November when killed 
down by freezing weather. With five 
more months to grow, this vounteer clover 
that I took up and* transplanted will get 
very large. s. R. Cockrell. 
Georgia. 
Last Spring I received from the Iowa 
Experiment Station two small packages 
of annual Sweet clover seed. From 
these 1 grew three distinct strains of 
'plants. One, though making more growth 
than the common biennial, did not bloom. 
Of course, it wintered over. Another 
made tremendous growth, ripening its 
seed first of November. It did not live 
over Winter. It is too coarse for feed, 
but would afford' a tremendous amount 
of material to plow under; but horses 
could not work through it. We shall 
grow this to make mulch for our apple 
trees. It will answer in place of nitrate. 1 
The third strain grew 4 to 5 ft. tall 
and ripened its seed in September. It 
lived over Winter and very early started 
a very rank growth. It was large enough 
for pasture before Blue grass. IIow long 
it will live we don’t know. 
Indiana. joe a. burton. 
being three to four inches deep. The 
cuttings should be put in the sand to a 
depth of about one inch, and in rows 2% 
in. apart, and 1% in. apart in the row. 
The cuttings should make roots in 21 to 
25 days if kept moist by daily sprinkling. 
Soon as rooted they should be potted into 
2 y 2 in- pots, and will make good' salable 
plants in about a month from time of 
potting. The propagating may continue 
until well along in May, as there is 
always a late demand for plants. I have 
my last batch of cuttings just ready for 
potting. If you have no greenhouse, then 
you will have to rely on hotbeds for early 
cuttings and the rooting of them. 
Seedlings may be got ready for sale 
from seed sown in January, but would 
advise that you rely upon cuttings from 
known double varieties, as many of the 
seedlings come single and are compara¬ 
tively worthless. K. 
How He Grows Horseradish 
I find a short article on horseradish on 
page 783. As the question was not an¬ 
swered according to our methods, I am 
going to tell you how horseradish is 
grown here. The ground is slightly 
ridged in rows three feet apart. On top 
of this ridge the cuttings, which are from 
8 to 12 in. long, are laid, pressing the 
small end or tip end down a trifle so that 
cutting is a little out of horizontal, (’are 
must be taken to have rootlets all with 
heads one way, and just as straight in 
the row as possible. Next plow up the 
dirt on both sides so that the cuttings 
are two or three inches deep. 
As soon as the first leaves are up so 
the roots or cuttings can be located, go 
with a short-handled hoe and uncover by 
digging down on either side to the cut¬ 
ting. lift the top or end with leaves with¬ 
out disturbing the lower or root end. and 
with a knife or the hand cut and rub off 
all sprouts and roots, leaving but one- 
half stalk and about the fast two inches 
of end of cutting for the feeding roots. 
Lay it down and again cover with the 
hoe. Some do this a second time about 
three or four weeks later, depending on 
weather and time they have to spare. 
There is one thing they do in planting; 
that is always to place the large end or 
top end toward the east or south. It is 
not difficult to raise roots weighing from 
one pound up when handled in this way. 
Illinois. S. J. REDFERN. 
A lecturer, on arriving at a meeting 
in an out-of-the-way town, found that he 
was wearing one black and one tan shoe. 
Immediately he sent post-haste to his 
hotel room for others. “Sorry, sir,” said 
the returned messenger breathlessly, “but 
it’s no better there. I found only one 
black and one tan one.”—Everybody’s 
Magazine. 
Injury from Grape Leaf-Hopper 
There is a pest in my grape vineyard, 
a very small green flea that works on 
underside of leaf and sucks sap out of it. 
The insects are very abundant. What 
will destroy them? The leaves begin to 
show inuirv already. C. D. 
Elizaville, N. Y. 
The insect that is probably causing the 
trouble in this instance is one of the 
grape leaf-hoppers, a pest more or less 
abundant on both the wild and cultivated 
varieties. Rather recent experiments have 
shown that this insect may be controlled 
by spraying with Black-leaf 40. one part 
to 1,(500 parts of water In order to kill, 
the mixture must hit the young nymphs, 
hence the under sides of the leaves must 
be sprayed. The most effective period for 
combating the pest is when there is a 
great number of the wingless nymphs and 
before the wings are developed. The 
period in which best control may be ob¬ 
tained varies from 10 to 15 days after the 
first apparance of the hoppers. The de¬ 
struction of the hibernating places by re¬ 
moving dead grass, leaves and rubbish 
of all kinds greatly assists in reducing in¬ 
juries by grape leaf-hoppers. This can 
be done late in the Fall, after they have 
gone into hibernation, or very early in the 
Spring, before they have left it. It is 
advisable also to allow the suckers at the 
base of the vine to grow rather late, or 
until just previous to spraying, as these 
are usually the first affected, and as they 
eventually are broken off no injury results 
from their leaving. F. L\ G. 
Getting Ready for Chrysanthemums 
How should a person start and what 
procedure should he follow to have for 
sale this Fall and. next Spring 2.000 
young plants of hardy Chrysanthemums, 
part from seed and part from cuttings? 
Oaryville, Mass. E. s. K. 
If you have a greenhouse the propaga¬ 
tion of Chrysanthemums is a very simple 
matter and with stock plants in sufficient 
quantity you can easily propagate not 
only 2,000 but many thousands if you 
have room to handle them. 
Procure your stock plants in the Fall, 
which should bo reasonably large clumps; 
plant them in boxes, in fairly good soil, 
and set them in the cold frame where 
they may remain until middle of January 
when they should be moved into a green¬ 
house with a temperature of about 50 
degrees at night. They will soon begin 
growth and when this young growth is 
five to six inches high, take 4-inch cut- 
rings. which may be inserted in sand on 
the bench or in boxes of sand, the sand 
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farmer than any other State—variety of soil, mild win¬ 
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(Trow only two or three crops and be far away from 
(rood markets, when you ean (trow a variety of crops in 
Virginia and he near the (treat consuming markets » The 
healthiest climate in America, free from disastrous 
storms. Write now for Hand Book, maps, etc. 
G. W. K0INER, Commissioner of Agriculture, Richmond, Virginia 
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FARM 
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CORN 
HAPVFQTFP cuts ane * Pile* on hnr 
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CANVAS 
COVERS, waterproof. 
6x10, $4. Hay Caps, 
Stack and tractor 
covers, plain and water proofed: all sizes. Write for prices. 
Agents wanted. WILLIAM W. STANLET, 50 Ctiurrii SI.. N T. City 
CRATES—3VEILK OASES 
32 Qt.—1 and 2 Bushel— CAULIFLOWER. CAR. 
.RAGE—FIELD AND PACKING HOUSE 
CRATES. MILK CASES. Quart. Pint, and 
covered. Anything in Wood. Rig; Indian Wood 
Products Co., Rig Indian, Ulster Co., N. Y. 
HAIRY VETCH 
Free from noxious weeds and of high 
germination 
Experiment Station Bulletin says: “Hairy Vetch 
hardly lias an equal as a land improver. If seeded 
early it will provide considerable grazing and 
help out the winter forage question.” 
Write for more information on this crop. Also 
quotations. Prices down to pre-war level. 
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84 Sixth Street Marysville. Ohio 
SENT BT EXPRESS 
OR PARCEL POST 
Per 100 
500 
1.000 
5.000 or more 
C’nhhuirc. 
■ SO 
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$ 1.25 
*1.10 
Cauliflower... 
. t»i> 
$>2.00 
3.50 
8.00 
Tomato. 
. to 
1.00 
1.50 
1.25 
Pepper 
2.00 
8.50 
3.25 
Sweet Potato 
.80 
l.tft 
8.00 
2.50 
Celery.. 
.50 
1.50 
2.50 
2.00 
Leading Varieties. Catalog free. C. E. F1EI.U,Sewell, V. J 
CULL BEANS for FEED 
$16 Ion 
sacks included, f. o. b. N. Y. City. 
PORT HURON STORAGE & BEAN CO., po ^ t , c h h uron 
Strawberry rijtnts 
Pot-grown, summer-bearing. S3.SO per 100. Progressive 
and Howard 17, 84 50 . GEORGE AIKEN. Box M. Putney, Vermont 
2 MILLIONS Sweet Potato, Tomato, Cabbage. Caulillower, 
IPepper and Brussels Sprouts plants Red skin potato 
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Write for particulars and free booklet 
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Capital $400,000 Surplus $115,000 
These Varieties 
Berries from Buckbee 
and Baal will frequently 
measure more than 2 
inches through. Kevitt’s 
Jubilee is a pointed, 
dark red sort. Think 
how readily such straw, 
berries would sell in 
city markets 1 All three 
varieties have a splendid 
flavor. Strong stems 
hold the berries entirely 
off the ground. 
Buckbee $1 per doz.; $7.50 per 
25; 813.50 per 50; $25 per 100. 
Kevin's Jubilee and Beal. $3 
per 25; $5.50 per 50; $10 per 
100. Send for descriptive 
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how to make better profits. 
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148 Chambers Street 
New Yark City 
FERTILIZERS 
FOR TOP-DRESSING 
Nitrate of Soda--NitrateofPotash 
FOR SEEDING DOWN 
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2 Rector Street, New York 
SAVE PACKAGE COSTS 
First Class—Second Hand Peach 
Carriers Berry Crates, Onion 
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